Grenoble INP - Ensimag news

From November 6th to November 9th, 2019, for the third year in a row, Grenoble INP - Esisar will host the European final of the largest academic cyber security competition in the world: the Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW); in partnership with New York University, NYU Abu Dhabi and the Indian Institute of Technology.

8 engineering students from Grenoble INP, institute of engineering (6 from Genie Industriel and 2 from Ensimag) participated at the Summer Camp on Technology and Culture, which took place from July 8th to July 19th 2019 in India. This is one of the actions planned as part of IDEX INDDEP project to develop international relationships with India, building on our partnership with Amrita University.

Ginsen summer school (for “Grenoble International Smart Engineering”) has ended after 5 intense weeks, rich in scientific courses, humanities classes and cultural activities. From June 11 to July 12, Grenoble INP welcomed 28 students from Nigeria, Hong Kong, South Korea, the USA, Australia, India, and the UK.

The paper "Electrical Properties of Low-Temperature Processed Sn-Doped In2O3 Thin Films: The Role of Microstructure and Oxygen Content and the Potential of Defect Modulation Doping" has been published in Materials

Univ. Grenoble Alpes in the international Top 50 in 6 subjects, and places itself among the best French universities, coming in 1st place in 7 disciplines in the French rankings 2019 published on 26th June.

Grenoble INP Institute of Engineering Univ. Grenoble Alpes has been awarded on Wednesday June 26th, the title of “European University” by the EU Commission for the project UNITE! (University Network for Innovation, Technology and Engineering), together with six other European universities.

The yearly 2-week Energy PhD School will take place at Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU) and Zhejiang University (ZJU) in Hangzhou between 12 and 25 August 2019. The theme of the PhD school this year is “Affordable Energy Transition: technological solutions and socio-economic constraints”.

From November 6th to November 9th, 2019, for the third year in a row, Grenoble INP - Esisar will host the European final of the largest academic cyber security competition in the world: the Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW); in partnership with New York University, NYU Abu Dhabi and the Indian Institute of Technology.

The "MIAI Grenoble Alpes" project to host an interdisciplinary artificial intelligence institute (3IA) was approved on Wednesday 24th April by the French State with a budget of 18.5 million Euros per year over 4 years.

On December 6th 2018, the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) announced the winner of a pan-European competition on the Added Value Manufacturing call: “EIT Manufacturing”. Knowledge and Innovation Community “EIT Manufacturing” is the third EIT in which Grenoble INP is involved as a core partner, after EIT InnoEnergy selected in 2010 and EIT Raw Materials in 2014.

The Grenoble University Space Center (CSUG) organizes a scientific and industrial workshop during the Grenoble NewSpace Week from Tuesday 14 until Friday 17 May 2019. This will be the second edition of a series of workshops that started with the successful 2016 workshop on The Future of Nanosatellites. The final day of the workshop is dedicated to Climate and Earth Observation. The main Friday program is organized together with the French National Space-borne Remote Sensing Program (Programme National de Télédétection Spatiale, PNTS), co-financed by CNES, CNRS INSU, IGN, IRD, and Météo-France..

"Don’t work as a team, work as a community! Individuals with a wide range of skill sets, with no hierarchy, no rigid organisational structure and no explicit duties, constantly talking and sharing ideas"...

The application deadline for the two summer schools organized by Grenoble INP in Micro and Nanotechnology and in Smart Energy is extended and will now end on March 22. New applications will no longer be considered after this date.

In the 2019 ranking of Engineering Schools published on 7 February by L'Usine Nouvelle magazine, Grenoble INP confirms its excellent position in research, with 3 of its schools present among the top 10 on this criterion.

The paper "First evidence of superiority of Si nanonet field effect transistors over multi-parallel Si nanowire ones in view of electrical DNA hybridization detection" has been published in Materials Research Express

The Communauté Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE UGA), the Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Grenoble Institute of Technology (INP), Sciences Po Grenoble and the Ecole nationale supérieure d’architecture de Grenoble (ENSAG) reaffirm their commitment to international students, and to the values of openness and exchange.

Grenoble INP reinventes its summer school for the 2019 session, and presents Ginsen: Grenoble international smart engineering summer school. One summer school with two options, based on Grenoble INP Institute of engineering expertise in two scientific fields: Nanotechnology and Smart Energy.

On Monday 22nd of October, Charles Elachi, an alumni of Grenoble INP, received the gold medal of the city of Grenoble in honor of his career as a scientist and protagonist of space exploration. Charles Elachi came to Grenoble for his studies after being designated best scientific student of Lebanon in 1963.

On Tuesday, September 13th a special event was held to welcome the new students for their first day at Grenoble INP. This 2018 edition was different: a new configuration, a new place and an open invitation for all co-workers to participate in this major event for the university.

The "My Alpes IsHere" is a video contest for foreign students attending university or grande école in Isère.As true ambassadors of the area, students are invited to share a positive tourist experience and make others want to do the same by creating a video.

The paper "Unveiling the Outstanding Oxygen Mass Transport Properties of Mn-Rich Perovskites in Grain Boundary-Dominated La0.8Sr0.2(Mn1–xCox)0.85O3±δ Nanostructures" has been published in Chemistry of Materials.

1st international Workshop on "Electrical detection of molecules using 0D, 1D, and 2D semi-conducting nanomaterials : Application to Health, Environment and Security"November 6-7, 2018 in Grenoble, FranceMore information in the attached Second Call for papers and on the workshop Website :https://nano2sense.sciencesconf.org/

Grenoble welcomed from June 6 to 9, 2018, the 14th edition of the BRAFITEC (BRAsil France Engineers TEChnologie) Forum, annual gathering of all institutions taking part in the eponym Franco-Brazilian cooperation programme. Organised by Grenoble and Savoie academic actors related to engineering*, under the leadership of Grenoble INP Institute of engineering Univ. Grenoble Alpes, this forum was the occasion, for project leaders and partners institutions of the BRAFITEC program, to discuss last year’s results, work on current and/or upcoming projects and exchange around conferences and workshops.

In conjunction with Grenoble INP-Phelma, Grenoble INP-Pagora now offers a Biorefinery and Biomaterials course as part of its Masters in Materials Science and Engineering. Applications are open until 15 June 2018.

The paper "Oxidation of copper nanowire based transparent electrodes in ambient conditions and their stabilization by encapsulation: application to transparent film heaters" has been published in Nanotechnology

The 14th annual New York University Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW) games – already the world’s largest and most comprehensive set of student-led security challenges – closed on Monday, November 13, in the last of five countries hosting the event, setting records and surprises.

The paper "Biomaterial-enabled delivery of SDF-1α at the ventral side of breast cancer cells reveals a crosstalk between cell receptors to promote the invasive phenotype" has been published in Biomaterials

The paper "Matchout deuterium labelling of proteins for small-angle neutron scattering studies using prokaryotic and eukaryotic expression systems and high cell-density cultures" has been published in Eur Biophys Journal

Grenoble INP International Relations departments had the pleasure of hosting 2 observers from Peradeniya University (Sri Lanka) during 3 month this year, within the frame of the AREAS project. Their goal was to observe the International Relations department's management and daily life, as they are to implement a similar office in Peradeniya University.

On july 3, Grenoble INP institute of engineering Univ. Grenoble Alpes has welcomed an important delegation from Nanyang Technological University of Singapore (NTU), Singapore Energy Market Authority (EMA) and Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI).

In May 2017, Reuters published the results of its report called « The 100 most innovative universities in Europe 2017 ». Grenoble INP institute of engineering and Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), ranking 31st and 43rd, are definitively positionning Univ. Grenoble Alpes in the most innovative universities in Europe (Top 50) thanks to excellence research jointly conducted with research organisms.

The paper "Benefits and limitations of Pt nanoparticles supported on highlyporous antimony-doped tin dioxide aerogel as alternative cathodematerial for proton-exchange membrane fuel cells" has been published in Applied Catalysis B: Environmental

Phelma proposes a new formation of Master degree in the field as of innovating materials and of the durable economy: AMIS (Advanced Materials for Innovation and Sustainability). This program dedicated to the innovations in advanced materials and their integration in a durable economy, is centered on critical materials, their substitution and the optimization of their performances. All these topics are central themes of the institute European of Technologies (EIT) which labeled the project.

U-Multirank ranking has been released on March, 30, 2017. This worldwide ranking of higher education institutions managed by the European Union ranks this year 1 497 institutions from 99 countries, according to 35 criteria organized in 5 groups and rated on a scale from 1 (very good) to 5 (weak) : teaching, research, knowledge transfer, international orientation and regional implication.

On March 25, 2017, Grenoble Institute of Technology’s athlete student Cléa Martinez (Ensimag School) became speed skiing world champion. Her path as engineer and high level athlete is supported by Grenoble Institute of Technology Foundation.

The paper "Tuning the properties of F:SnO2 (FTO) nanocomposites with S:TiO2 nanoparticles – promising hazy transparent electrodes for photovoltaics applications" has been published in Journal of Materials Chemistry C

For the second year running, Grenoble INP - Esisar has welcomed a delegation of Algerian university lecturers and researchers, in the framework of the Réseau Mixte des Ecoles (RME) cooperation program.

On November 10-12 2016, a team of four students and their coach David Hély, associate professor in Esisar, went to Brooklyn to compete in the final round of the annual Embedded Security Challenge organized for the NYU Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW).

The next stop of your caffeinated journey this year will be South Korea, on Wednesday, November 9: an obvious break in THE coffee flagship city, Seoul, which has more Starbucks than any other city in the world, including New York!

Eleven students from Esisar in the bus on October, 13th, ready for a trip to Lyon. The aim? Getting to Place Bellecour for the International Welcome Day organized by the Agera (Alliance des Grandes Ecoles in the Rhône-Alpes), as every year since 2000.

Once again, Grenoble was ranked as the best French city for university studies ahead of Rennes and Toulouse (the last time was in 2013). As explained by the magazine L’Etudiant when the ranking was published on September 7th: “The capital of the Dauphiné region has everything needed to attract students. It’s not surprising the city has been in the top three of our ranking for the past ten years!”

A nice double win for the Professor, specialist in bio-based nanocomposites, rewarded by a prize of the TAPPI and ranked in the 300 most cited researchers in the field of Materials Science & Engineering in 2016.

Elsa Walger, LGP2's Ph.D. student, defended her Ph.D. thesis: "Study of the activation of hydrogen peroxide by the copper(II)-phenanthroline complex for the color-stripping of recovered cellulosic fibers".

The LGP2 recently became an associate member of the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC), an association founded in Brussels in 2012 to represent the private sector within the Bio-Based Industries (BBI) public-private partnership.

Thanks to the support of the Tec21 "Laboratory of Excellence", the LGP2 was able to play host to two North American professors with expertise in nanocellulose materials: Emily Cranston (24 May-26 June 2016) and E. Johan Foster (1 June-1 July 2016).

On June 14th, Times Higher Education World University Rankings and Reuters, published its first Top 100: Europe's Most Innovative Universities ranking. Two universities in the Grenoble ecosystem were ranked among the top 50 most innovative European universities. The Grenoble Alpes University was ranked 35 and Grenoble Institute of Technology ranked 39.

The poster entitled “Evaluation of the Mass Transport Properties of La0.8Sr0.2MnO3+d nanostructures by Finite Element Method Simulations" was presented at Symposium D durin the E-MRS in May 2016 and has obtained the 2nd price dedicated to poster presentations.

In the framework of the English Week, a visit of Valrhona chocolate factory has been organized for our invited professors and our international students to discover our region and exchange together, on May, 27th.

Another award has been handed to the Fil Rouge project to develop eco-friendly agricultural string, led jointly by Textilose Curtas Technologies (TCT) and the Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Science and Graphic Arts (LGP2).

As a tool to promote the innovative projects led by Grenoble INP-Pagora, the purpose of the Agefpi Endowment Fund is to secure new funding through the philanthropy of graduates, private individuals, student parents and companies.

Claire Monot, LGP2's Ph.D. student, defended her doctoral thesis : "Contribution to the study of lignin-carbohydrate complexes (LCCs) in wood. Study of the impact of the different steps of a sulfur-free biorefinery process on these LCCs".

The paper "Critical behavior near the ferromagnetic–paramagnetic phase transition temperature of Pr0.67Ba0.33Mn1−xFexO3 (x=0 and 0.05) manganite" has been published in Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials

Professor at Grenoble INP-Pagora, he has been appointed as Director of the Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Science and Graphic Arts. He replaces Evelyne Mauret, who resumes her teaching and research role, having headed the laboratory for the last five years.

The paper "Qualification of a sublimation tool applied to the case of metalorganic chemical vapor deposition of In2O3 from In(tmhd)3 as a solid precursor" has been published in Review of Scientific Instruments

SIMaP was created in 2007 from association of three former laboratories of the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Recearch), Grenoble-INP (group of graduate engineering schools) and University of Grenoble-Alpes.

Romania through their eyes: Stefan, Romanian exchange student at Esisar and Georges, graduated student from the University Polytehnica of Bucharest, will share with you their experiences. Proceed to gate B042 for boarding on Wednesday, 3, February, at 12:30!

The exhibition "Foreign Windows", organized by the Inter'Val association (in room A024), comes to an end. Inter'Val proposes a friendly moment to celebrate the exhibition’s end on Wednesday, January 27 at 12:30 pm in room A006.

On 16 October 2015, the European Research Council (ERC) announced the list of the 44 winners selected during the second round of the "Proof of Concept 2015" call for proposals. Catherine Picart, a professor at Grenoble INP - Phelma and a researcher at the LMGP laboratory, is one of the 2 winners hosted by French institutions for this funding.

The international QS World University Rankings by Faculty® - Engineering & Technology 2015/2016 has been published. Grenoble INP, 199th in the world ranking with a score of 68.1 points, comes in 4th place for France, behind Ecole polytechnique (81st with 76.3 points), Centrale Paris (153rd with 70.8 points) and Pierre and Marie Curie University (186th with 69.1 points). The UJF comes in the 5th position with 66 points and comes 228th in the world ranking, followed by Mines ParisTech and INSA of Lyon.

The TiO2 nanoflowers grown by Sayari Biswas, Erasmus Mundus doctoral student from Indian School of Mines (ISM) working at Laboratoire des matériaux et génie physique (LMGP) in Grenoble have been selected by Nanoart contest.

James Crowley is professor at Grenoble INP -Ensimag and researcher at Inria, He works for innovation and experimentation with human-centered services based on the use of large-scale deployment of interconnected digital devices capable of perception, action, interaction and communication.

The international school of paper, print media and biomaterials and the Italian university are keen to develop an active partnership within the specific framework of a Masters in "Paper and cardboard production - production system management".

The Bordeaux - Solvay University Fondations "Promotion of maritime pine chemistry" prize was awarded to Claire Monot, a third-year PhD student at the Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Science and Graphic Arts (LGP2).

This short Workshop based on the concepts developed in the Gordon Conferences of combining clear overviews of atopic and lively and challenging debate is organised by SF2M on the topic of “Mapping the Future of MaterialsScience”. It is important to attempt to map the Future of Materials Science from both a pedagogical viewpoint andfrom the viewpoint of developing clear synthesis of how the various crucial aspects of materials science are related.

In connection with the first energy transition awards (trophées de la transition énergétique), organised on the 19th May 2015 in Paris by the Usine nouvelle magazine, HydroQuest received the Grand Prize of the jury from the chairman, Louis Schweitzer, the general commissioner of investment. Amazon, its vertical axis river turbine won the “jury’s favourite” prize.

To limit the increase in paper production costs, one approach is to reduce the amount of fibers and increase the proportion of inorganic fillers. However, the problem is to maintain the mechanical properties of products with a reduced number of bonds between fibers.

Institute Carnot PolyNat has been proud to welcome in Grenoble on May 5th and 6th 2015, an audience including scientists and international industrialists as well as M. Ambassador Lu from Taipei Delegation Office in France.

Two recent patents bear witness to the significant advances achieved thanks to the research of the Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Science and Graphic Arts (LGP2) in the field of nanocellulose and its applications.

On 23 March 2015, the Confluences Institute awarded a 2015 Industry Prize to Grenoble-based firm ISORG. This rewards the creation, in conjunction with Grenoble INP-Pagora, of a "Printed Electronics" course geared towards meeting the needs of an emerging job-creating sector, one that has seen the graphic and electronics industries converge.

The conference will include 22 parallel symposia, one plenary session, one exhibition and much more. The Symposium G will cover both transparent, electrically conductive materials (TCM) based on traditional conductive oxides such as ITO, AZO or FTO and emerging TCMs based on graphene, carbon nanotubes, metallic nanowire networks, metallic grids, and composites.

Between 2010 and 2014, the Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Science and Graphic Arts (LGP2), represented by Julien Bras, Associate Professor at Grenoble INP-Pagora, played an active role in the European programme for scientific and technological cooperation (COST FP1003) in the field of biobased packaging: BioMatPack. This scientific and industrial partnership between several European countries has led to a variety of initiatives. In March 2015, it took a fresh step forward with the launch of the ActInPak project (COST FP1405) on active and intelligent packaging.

Thibaut Martini defended his University of Grenoble doctoral thesis entitled "Study of the ink formulation based on Cu, Zn, Sn S precursors and of the crystallization's annealing for the non-vacuum deposit of photovoltaic layers".

The dancer , who was in the premises of Grimage , platform common virtual reality and Inria Grenoble INP Montbonnot was accompanied by musicians in Spain, Poland and Lithuania. Evolving in a monochrome room, his body and his movements were captured by cameras whose images were used to reconstruct a 3D model of the artist in real time.

The French Society of Operations Research and Decision Support ( ROADEF ) offers both years ROADEF / EURO challenge in partnership with an industrial to a problem of operational research. Dozens of teams of researchers , industrialists and students in operations research from around the world participate in this event each time.

The qualifying result : Link to the site for the finals of the international challenge of Operational Research EURO / ROADEF proposed by the SNCF in 2014 was announced during the gala dinner of the conference ROADEF 2014 set in the beautiful palace of the purse Bordeaux. Last November, students of Grenoble had won the sprint , the first step of this challenge.

G-SCOP is a multidisciplinary laboratory which has been created to meet the scientific challenges imposed by the ongoing changes within the industrial world. The scope of the laboratory goes from the products conception to the production systems management and is based on strong skills in optimisation.

The new Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) installed at the Common Technological Resources Consortium (CMTC), was inaugurated on Monday 19 January in the presence of Yves Bréchet, Director of the Laboratory of Excellence, CEMAM, and its supervisory authorities.There were about 150 people in the Besson amphitheatre of the Phelma Campus to have answered the invitation of CEMAM’s director to inaugurate the brand new TEM-FEG. This item of equipment was purchased by the Labex CEMAM* in partnership with the Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Grenoble (OSUG), the Institut Carnot Energie du Futur and the company NanoMEGAS, specialised in scientific instrumentation. “The TEM is everything but a dead piece of equipment,” emphasised Yves Bréchet in his opening speech. “On the contrary, it’s an instrument that’s used to build tools that allow us to control materials.” Given that the CEMAM’s role is to design, produce and characterise “hybrid materials” in which it is necessary to master the microstructures

Ahlem Romdhane defended her University of Grenoble doctoral thesis entitled "Membrane separation processes for continuous production of nanocrystals of polysaccharides: experimental approach and modeling".

Hydroelectricity is not the ageing science that people think it is. Nowadays, hydroelectric machines are high-technology objects that have to satisfy increasingly stringent flexibility, performance and endurance criteria.

Clément Jany, a young doctor who did his PhD in Optics and Radiofrequencies (OR) at Minatec, CEA Leti, under the supervision of Philippe Ferrari from the IMEP-LAHC laboratory, won the award for the best article during the European Microwawe week that was held in Rome (Italy) from 5 to 10 October and which brought together approximately 1,400 attendees from across the globe. This is the second largest international conference on this subject, following the yearly conference held in the United States.

US News and World Report, the American magazine, has published its best global universities rankings for the first time. This ranking is composed of 21 subject areas and an overall ranking of the world’s best 500 universities by continent and by country.

True to the tradition of Jacques Cartier Interviews this 27th edition will include 27 symposia reflecting the six world of Jacques Cartier Centre : scientific , technological, economic , social, cultural and political .

From October 29th to 31st 2014, the International Pulp Bleaching Conference (IPBC) will be organized in Grenoble. This is the only global conference reporting on the latest technological and scientific advances in the bleaching of kraft, sulphite pulp and chemical and textile uses.

Grenoble INP was awarded a prize at the Ingénieuses’14 ceremony attended by Geneviève Fioraso, Secretary of State for Higher education and Research held on June 12 in Paris, France. The ceremony was chaired by Christian Lerminiaux, President of the CDEFI, and sponsored by Marie-Sophie Pawlak, President of the Elles bougent association.

Renaud Bouchet, professor at Grenoble INP – Phelma and researcher in the LEPMI (Laboratory of Electrochemistry, Physics and Chemistry of Materials and Interfaces), has just been granted the EDF Pulse Award in the Science category.

This € 1.5 million agreement is geared towards the study of civil engineering structures and their behaviour. The holder of this chair, Frédéric Dufour, heads the Training/research links at Ense3 and is the deputy head of the 3SR (Soils, Solids, Structures - Risks) laboratory.

For the second year in a row, Grenoble INP has placed second in the general L'Usine Nouvelle ranking with 84.4 points out of 100, preceded only by Polytechnique and retains 1st place for research. This is the third time that the group has been ranked second of French engineering schools by L'Usine Nouvelle.

On 11 March 2014, the results of "iCapitale" (competition for the European capital of innovation launched by the European Commission in September 2013) were published. Grenoble was selected second most innovative city in Europe behind Barcelona.

Once again, Grenoble INP stands out amongst the world’s top universities in the Materials Sciences, "Engineering - Electrical & Electronic" and "Engineering – Mechanical" subject areas for the QS World University Rankings 2014.

The Centre Asiatique de Recherche sur l’Eau (Asian centre for water research) was inaugurated on 19 November 2013 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, at the second conference of the RESCIF presidents. The Network of Excellence in Engineering Sciences of the French-speaking Community (RESCIF) was created in 2010 and implements innovative targeted and long-lasting cooperation between 14 technological universities with the goal of addressing some of the major challenges of emerging and developing countries.

Grenoble INP - Alumni carries out concrete actions in favour of creating businesses and providing mutual assistance between members of the network. It is within this scope that the association has joined forces with experts to create a business angels funds in partnership with GEM Graduate Network (ESC Grenoble).

For the third consecutive year, a group of students from Grenoble INP - Esisar took part in the CSAW (Cyber Security Awareness Week) organised by Poly NYU which was held from 14 to 16 November 2013. The team won 4th place.

Organized by the LGP2, Grenoble INP-Pagora, CTP (Centre Technique du Papier) and ATIP (French technical association of the paper industry), the 2014 International Pulp Bleaching Conference (IPBC) will be held in Grenoble, France, on October 29-31, 2014.

The Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Science and Graphic Arts (LGP2) and the Grenoble INP-Pagora engineering school support InoFib, the marketing project aimed at industrial scale production of an innovative material: cellulose microfibrils (MFC).

The seminars are open and should foster discussions between several research teams. It will be followed by a second half day meeting devoted to the more "traditional" transparent conductive oxides (TCO). it is scheduled during the 12th of december, 2013 afternoon. Detailed program will be given soon.

At its 45th International Congress of Cellulose and Paper held in São Paulo in October 2012, the Brazilian Pulp and Paper Technical Association (ABTCP) presented the Eucalyptus Award to Frederic Pouyet, a PhD student at the Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Science and Graphic Arts (LGP2), for his lecture entitled "Improvement of the chlorine-free bleaching of eucalyptus kraft pulp".

On November 27, 2012 the Innovative Techniques for the Environment Award, organized in the framework of Pollutec 2012 in partnership with ADEME, has been granted to Papel, the Li-ion paper battery developed by researchers from the LGP2.

Louis ZANGARA, co-founder of DOLPHIN Integration, which designs integrated circuits, and director of the Minalogic competitive cluster, explains the importance of business involvement in the life of an engineering school.

FRAUNHOFER includes sixty research and development institutes spread across Germany, including FRAUNHOFER ICT, a chemical technology institute situated near Karlsruhe. The applied electrochemistry division operates in four wide-ranging areas: batteries and accumulators; fuel cells; electro catalysis; and analytical chemistry and chemical sensors.

Marianne WEIDENHAUPT, researcher at the “Laboratoire des matériaux et du génie physique” (LMGP) and lecturer at G-INP Phelma describes the advantages students have to be taught by researchers from the 11 labs affiliated with Phelma.

Huang Yongkan, brilliant Chinese student from the Huazhong University of Science & Technology in Whuan, had always dreamed of studying in an engineering school in France and with hard work and dedication his dream came true despite modest circumstances.

Following his visit to the Grenoble campus in February 2011, Erik Orsenna came back for a conference – book signing on 12 June 2012 in the wake of the recent publication of his book "Sur la route du papier".

Supported by the Grenoble School of Architecture and the Grands Ateliers de l’Isle d'Abeau, Team Rhône-Alpes – together with Grenoble INP - Ense3, the GSCOP laboratory and Vesta-System – has just won the 2012 edition of the Solar Decathlon.

Université Joseph Fourier and Grenoble INP, both members of the Université de Grenoble PRES (research and higher education centre), topped the worldwide rankings for higher education institutions owing to the quality of their research and their reputation in the QS World University Rankings by subject area.

Phelma's 1st year students have participated, with their english professor Caroline Schlenker, in a French radio program on Radio Campus : English Talk Radio. As its name indicates this program is recorded in English.

Grenoble INP-Pagora has already received a positive assessment of its first Post Master degree "Biorefinery: bioenergy, bioproducts & biomaterials" which started last September. This one-year degree program is intended for French or foreign students or professionals who wish to specialize in these new and exciting developments.

Grenoble INP-Pagora will be present at the 2010 Packaging Exhibition from November 22nd – 25th, 2010 in Paris Nord Villepinte, and will present its post-master "Biorefinery: bioenergy, bioproducts & biomaterials".

Within the framework of the Samuel de Champlain Franco-Canadian program, researchers from the LGP2, laboratory located in Grenoble INP-Pagora, and from FPInnovations, a private Canadian research center, are uniting their efforts to study the compatibilization of nano-crystalline cellulose. This collaboration aims to develop new applications in preparation for production at an industrial scale.